From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.